WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 141, 23 September 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

DOMESTIC GAINS B.A. DEGREE. Amongst those who have just gained the B.A. (honors) degree of the University of Wales is a young lady whose early education was obtained at a small elementary school in the remotest corner of Carmarthenshire. After leaving school, she became a domestic servant, and acted in that capacity for some time before she was able to resume her studies and proceed to the University College at Bangor. Such instances as these (observes the Chronicle) give point to a remark once made by the late Sir Lewis Morris that when the full romance of Welsh .education is written, it would read like a fairy tale.

ENGLISH GIRLS AND FOREIGNERS. Need of an international divorce law and of protection of the English girl who marries in England a foreigner under age without satisfying the law of his country, was a topic of the International Law Association recently. Mr. J. A. Bariiett said, reports the Daily Mail, that England, Bek'mm and the Mohammedan law of Egypt were the conspicuous exceptions to the rule that husband and wife had not equal ground for divorce. There was not a single cause for divorce in the United States which could not be duplicated on the Continent. Loquacity of the Wife was a cause for divorce in Formosa, and in Algeria the discovery of a previous wooing by the husband where there had not been refusal or acceptance by the other lady. In Egypt, where the husband divorced his wife by repudiating her verbally or in writing, he could not take her hack again until she had married someone else and had been repudiated by this interlocatory husband. Dr. Gaston de Leval, of the British Legation, Brussels, explained the dangers of an English girl marrying a foreign minor without his parents' consent. On the Continent the parents could have the marriage declared void, but it was valid in Enghind. By her marriage she lost her British nationality in the eyes of the English law, but in Belgium, where the marriage was void, she was still considered British. If she wished to marry again she would be a bigamist in England, and she could not divorce her husband in Belgium because the marriage was already void, nor could she divorce him in England because our law has no jurisdiction over a Belgian domiciled abroad. The remedy he suggested was that such a marriage should be allowed only when it was proved that the law of the husband's country was satisfied.

i SEPTUAGENARIAN'S ROMANCE. Within an hour after he was indicted in New York by the Federal Grand Jury on 3rd August on a charge of conspiracy in using the mails for fraudulent purposes, and after furnishing £SOOO bail, Colonel Christopher Wilson, president of the United Wireless Telephone Company,' aged 70, a widower, with several adult children, married his stenographer, 17 years of< age, and started on his honeymoon, seemingly free from care arid happy. The marriage of Colonel Wilson is the culmination of a romance which hqgan in his private office about two years ago, when he met Miss Lewis, an unusually pretty girl. More than a month .before, says the Daily Telegraph's correspondent, a rumor was current that Wilson was to marry the girl, and the report was spread widely that ! the ceremony was to take place in a ! short time. All the girl stenographers in the office noticed the president's attention to Miss Lewis, and seemed confident that something would happen soon. At \ that time Colonel Wilson was asked whether he had any intention of marryiinv find he took the question as a huge joke, laughing heartily at the idea that he, a septuagenarian, should bo considering [ matrimony with a girl so young. More" '; over, his late wife had died onfy a year i. previously in England,

NOTES FROM LONDON. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. London, August 5. In consequence of the Conciliation Bill this session, the Women's Freedom League have arranged for a strong deputation to attend at Westminster from this week, until the Hov.se rises for the recess. Every suffragi ;t will carry and exhibit a copy of the Vote as a reminder that at the reassembling of Parliament the suffrage question will again be brought to the front.

NURSES AS "INTRUDERS." A Roman Catholic doctor drew a pessimistic picture of the England of to-day, and of all those beings outside the pale of the Roman Church,at the Catholic Congress at Leeds early this. week. An unhappy state of unrest and turmoil was characteristic of the female element of England, he wailed, and boldly asserted that a strange woman in a sick man'* room was an intruder. A sick man oiHit to be nursed 'by a man. Women ought to be restricted to their own sex. The dissection of human bodies, clinical examinations of the living body, the nursiijg of men by strange women were relies of heathenism. It mattered little where they looked outside the Catholic Church 66111811116138 was the object in life. To get congregations Dissenters and Anglicans had to turn their meeting-places°in--1o concert halls. The God Pan had not forgotten his pipes.

WOMEN .SCOUTS. On September 1, fifty ladies, members of the Women's Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps, are to commence a week's camp at Studland, in Dorset. While there they will make a special study of scouting in all its branches, in order that, should war break out, they may foe available for active service. The corps of which mention has been made before' is rim in conformity with the requirements of the British Red Cross Society

and the training includes the riding and management of horses, signalling, etc. In camp the members will probably study the art of tracking human and animal footprints, making camp lircs, erecting tents, signalling—both .Mor.sc and semaphore—and life-saving. Ju-jitsu exer- . cises, improvising stretchers, and other similar practical work will be practised.

REGISTERED CHARWOMEN. . An experiment has recently been carried out in Glasgow which has done much to bring the women's side of the system of labor exchanges, inaugurated by Mr. Winston Churchill, before the public. The residents were informed by circular that charwomen could be obtained immediately by telephoning to the Labor Exchange, and, as a result, about ISOorders for charwomen are now being received each week. It is suggested that this experiment might with advantage be extended to London, and it is proposed that the authorities should select one or two districts among the betterclass suburbs in order to see whether the London housewife would be likely to cooperate in such a scheme.

A BLUE ROSE. A blue rose lias been successfully produced by a Buckinghamshire florist, and is said to be the first specimen yet exhibited. It is known as Lady Coventry, and is a bloom of exceptional quality and color. It production is the result of five years of experiment. It is a cross betwren the 'Mdlle. Eugene Vedier and otl rr varieties. When opening the rose is vermilion, shaded and veined with intense blue, which predominates and expands until the ruling color is a rich blue. The <blooms are large and handsome, and require no special treatment. The stick is very hardy.

WOMEN GENERALS. Interesting news is to hand this week from Ancona, regarding the excavations on a large scale, which have been carried out under the direction of Professor Dall Osso, in the ancient necropolic of Belmonte, dating from the iron age, and which have resulted in the discovery, among other things, of two verv rich tombs of women warriors, with war chariots over the remains, exactly as was the case with the tombs of the male warriors discovered some time ago. The importance of the discovery is exceptional, as it shows that the existence of Amazon heroines as leaders of armies, sung by the ancient poets, is not a poetic invention, but an historic reality.

* WOMEN SMOKERS. j Deputations from the Epworth League, the Baptists' Young People's Union, and the Christian Endeavor Societies are to] be sent to Mrs. Longworth, the daughter | of Mr. Roosevelt, asking her to give up cigarette smoking. A joint meeting was held to discuss the evils of narcotic, and a warm discussion ensued, in which women who smoke were severely censured. Mrs. Longworth was singled .put for special censure on the ground that the example of so conspicuous a woman as the ex-President's daughter would be likely to have great inlluence on the rising generation of American girls. FOR DYSPEPTICS. According to a Harley street physician ripe pineapples contain a pepsin ferment known as bromeline, which peptotiises meat and all peptonisable food. The juice of this fruit taken after a meal soon reduces what has been eaten to within easy reach of the gastric func-, tion, which then has little or nothing to | do. Pineapple should never be eaten when groen, says the same authority, for the juice is then a deadly poison; indeed, certain tribes on the West Coast of Africa use it as venom on the tips of their arrows. The fruit should be eaten very ripe, for the juice is also a tonic, and strengthens the heart. The fibrous part should never be swallowed, and tinned pineapple, if boiled before being canned, is useless, because the boiling destroys the peptone.

BRIDE GETS A MILLION DOWRY. The Paris correspondent of a London paper reports that the dowry which the young American heiress, Miss Katherine Elkins, wul receive from her father, Senator Elkins, on the occasion of her marriage with the Duke of the Abruzzi will be £1,000,000. It is definitely announced that the wedding will take phce in February, and that Miss Elkins is now being prepared for her entry into the Roman Catholic Church.